SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE, Washington, D. C. Two copies of the " Museums of the Future," by G, Brown Goode. BOBERT T. SWAN, Commissioner, Boston, Mass.: Fourth and Fifth annual reports on the custody and condition of the Public Records. MRS. ELLEN HARDIN WALWORTH, Editor: Two copies of the American Monthly Magazine for December, 1892. MRS BETSEY WRBBER, Lansing: Original tax rolls for the town of Watertown, Clinton county, for the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841 and 1842. WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Cleveland, O.: Tracts 73-84, Vol. III. WYOMING HISTORICAL AND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, Wilkes Barre, Pa.: Wyoming Memorial Medal in commemoration of the Battle and Massacre of Wyoming July 3, 1778. MISCELLANEOUS: Five copies of Gov. John J. Bagley's Thanksgiving Proclamation for 1875, and one for 1873. COMMITTEE MEETINGS. The executive committee and committee of historians have held two meetings in joint session since the last annual meeting, as follows: One on April 25, 1893, just after the appropriation of 1893 had been granted, to decide on plans for future work and the judicious expenditure of this appropriation. It was decided to proceed at once with the publication of Volume XXI, Pioneer and Historical Collections, to contain the proceedings of the annual meeting of 1892, together with such historical papers as had been collected up to that date. The secretary was directed to have printed 1,500 copies of the constitution and by-laws in accordance with a resolution adopted at the last annual meeting. A committee consisting of Fred Carlisle was appointed to draft a circular for distribution, relative to the duties of vice presidents, and the necessity of county and other societies becoming auxiliary to this society. The secretary was instructed to make the usual necessary preparations for the annual meeting on the 7th and 8th of June, such as providing for a place of meeting, securing a stenographer, music, etc. The second meeting of the committees was held on June 5 and 7, 1893, for the purpose of completing the arrangements for the annual meeting of June 7 and 8. The program as arranged by the secretary was submitted, approved, and ordered printed. Jennie B. Greene was appointed secretary of the committee of historians to continue until further action of the committees. Mrs. Mary C. Spencer, State Librarian, made a proposition to the committees to set apart space in the State Library for the books, papers, etc., belonging to the society, classify the same, and publish was accepted and a them in an appendix to her catalogue, which resolution of thanks for her generous offer was adopted. The bills allowed and ordered paid will be found in the report of the treasurer and the balance of the work accomplished during the year will be found in the minutes of the annual meeting and the annual reports of the other officers of the society submitted at this date. All of which is respectfully submitted. GEO. H. GREENE, REPORT OF THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Lansing, June 7, 1893. To the Officers and Members of the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society: I herewith beg leave to submit my fourteenth annual report of the correspondence of the society together with the file of letters and communications received within the past year. These letters are all filed for easy reference and all requiring an answer have been promptly replied to, and all donations entrusted to my address have been duly acknowledged. Notices of this meeting have been mailed to every member of the society together with a copy of the constitution, by-laws and list of members which has been recently printed in accordance with a resolution adopted at our last annual meeting, also a circular issued by the committee of historians with a view of securing a greater coöperation with county and other local societies, with this society and thereby preserve many of the historical papers read before these societies which might otherwise fall into careless hands and be lost. This notice and circular were also mailed to all the leading newspapers of the state, many of which have given notice of this meeting in a prominent place in their columns. At the close of our last annual meeting, I sent a notice to each of the vice presidents informing them of their election and duties, and another about a month since requesting them to make a memorial report at this meeting, of worthy pioneers of their counties who have died within the year. The death roll of members of the society for the past year, so far as 1 have been able to ascertain, is as follows: 33 Ebenezer S. Eggleston 53 Betsey Fisk... 137 James I. David.... 171 Jonathan Parsons. 211 Hiram Arnold... 262 Dr. Henry L. Joy 309 John Rutherford.. 311 Benj. F. Partridge..... 415 Francis R. Stebbins 458 Alexander Chapoton 542 A. D. P. Van Buren. 610 Theophilus C. Abbot.. 618 J. Huff Jones Also the following whose deaths have not heretofore been reported: REPORT OF THE TREASURER. Lansing, June 7, 1893. To the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society: I herewith submit my annual report as follows: Merritt L. Coleman treasurer, in account with the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, from June 1, 1892 to June 7, 1893. Amount on hand June 1, 1892 of the appropriation made by Act 33 APPROPRIATION OF 1893. The appropriation made by Act 60 of 1893 can be drawn from the state treasury only on a warrant from the auditor general and a voucher approved by the president and secretary of the society, and is as follows: Lansing, Mich., June 7, 1893. To the Pioneer and Historical Society of the State of Michigan: The committee of historians would respectfully report that in the past year it has been quite successful in acquiring historical material relative to the settlement of counties in the northern part of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, and of those of the Upper Peninsula, with many items of interest relative to the industrial pursuits of the pioneers in the different sections of the State, particularly those relating to agriculture, mining, the fisheries, and the lumber interests. The committee has also continued its investigations in the dominion archives at Ottawa, Canada, and has had copied twelve maps and 4,605 folios of matter found there in official papers relative to the history of Michigan during the Indian, French, and British occupation of the territory west of the great lakes. The historical value of the papers which the committee has caused to be copied at Ottawa, Canada, through the courtesy of the dominion government and the active kindness of Douglas Brymner, Esq., Cana |